[Riftcat] VRidge 1-year anniversary sale, $9.99 (50% off)

Trinus never worked right for me, so I pretty much gave up on it. Then again, it's been a couple years since I last tried it so things probably changed a lot in the meantime. I might have to try it out again, see if it's any better .

Anyway, it's always preferable to try the various option and opt for whatever works best for you. I'm just letting people know about the sale, so they have time to try it out and see if that's something they want to invest in.

By default, if I'm not mistaken, it uses the H264 codec (bith hardware and software encoding available) HECV encoding is also avaiable but still considered experimental becuase it's unstable for some people. They're also in the progress of adding Moonlight streaming support.

It was originally intended as an Oculus proxy interceptor and can run Rift games for SDK 0.6-0.8. The then added SteamVR support so any SteamVR/OpenVR game will work on it, as well as most Oculus games with the help of Revive.

It does 360° head tracking using the phone internal sensor (or the more precise sensor array of the GearVR if you have that) It also supports FreeTrack so you can add head-tracking and controllers via a number of methods, the most populars being the PSMove service and of course Nolo. Nolo has been working with Riftcat since the beginning and even included a registered copy of VRidge in some reward tiers. (My Nolo should technically be here tomorrow according to my tracking number so I will be able to give a first hand impression then)

People have been able to use vorpX with VRidge with some level of success. Some tweaking might be required. (Personally never tried it as I'm not interested in playing non-VR games in VR.) Screen mirroring and fake VR are on the roadmap but not done yet.

That's probably the main difference between Trinus and VRidge. VRidge was designed from the beginning to fully emulate a VR HMD and is slowly adding more options, while Trinus was designed to mirror the screen and transmit head rotation as mouse movements. They've added SteamVR support in Trinus (and recently, support for Nolo) and I hear it's good but harder to configure. VRidge is the more plug-and-play solution while Trinus is more customizeable. (Trinus is also the only one right now that can work with iOS)

Of course, the best course of action if you're interested would be to try them both and see which one works better for you. They both have trial version so it won't cost a thing to figure out if either of them is for you.